Sciences and Technology

Nicholas Carr / The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most...

Catherine Price / How To Break Up With Your Phone

Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly...

Peter M. Higgins / Mathematics for the Curious

When do the hands of a clock coincide? How likely is it that two children in the same class will share a birthday? How do we calculate the volume of a doughnut? Mathematics for the Curious provides anyone interested in mathematics with a simple and...

Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

In this brilliantly ambitious and provocative book, evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller shows the evolutionary power of sexual choice, and the reasons why our ancestors became attracted not only to pretty faces and bodies, but to minds that...

Tom Hird / Blowfish's Oceanopedia: 291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About the Sea

The seas of our planet cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth, yet we know less about the ocean depths than the surface of the moon. Join marine biologist and fish-fanatic Tom "The Blowfish" Hird as he lifts the lid on a treasure chest of...

Robert Dinwiddie / Spreadsheets : Charts and Graphics

This jargon-free guide from the "Essential Computers" series covers all chart and graph options from line, column, pie, bubble and 3D. It also helps you to extend your working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and to create professional-looking visuals...

Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori / Java 7 Pocket Guide: Instant Help for Java Programmers

When you need quick answers for developing or debugging Java programs, this pocket guide provides a handy reference to the standard features of the Java programming language and its platform. You’ll find helpful programming examples, tables,...

Phil R.M. Oliver / An Introduction to Windows 7

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Bryan Sykes / Adam's Curse : A Future Without Men

Genetically speaking, the only difference between men and women is that where women have two X chromosomes, men have one X and one Y. It is surprising that one chromosome difference out of our total of forty-six can have such an important...

Bob Reeves / Teach Yourself the Internet and Email for the Over 50s

Do you feel that you have been left behind by the technological revolution? This book focuses on the wide range of Internet and email skills that are of particular relevance for older computer users, cutting through the 'techno-babble' and making the...

Pat Shipman / Taking Wing - Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

The author breaks down the book into smaller stories, such as the discovery of the fossils themselves, the structure of the skeletal joints of dinosaurs and modern birds, and the evolution and aerodynamics of feathers to name a few. Also recounted are...

Robert Henson / The Rough Guide to Weather

Provides weather-related facts, including world climates, precipitation, and global warming, while outlining specific countries' weather patterns throughout the year.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Michael Sims / Adam's Navel : The Weird and Wonderful Story of the Human Body

In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative in which he analyzes the visible...

Peter Hobson / The Cradle of Thought : Exploring the Origins of Thinking

In Cradle of Thought Peter Hobson, a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of London, examines how thought develops in infants, focussing on the subsequent differences in the quality of thinking between...

Amir D. Aczel / Chance : A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else

In Chance , celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory -- the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical...

Eugenia Cheng / Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths

Why is -(-1) = 1?Why do odd and even numbers alternate?What's the point of algebra?Is maths even real?From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to...

Andrew Ford / Apache 2 Pocket Reference

  Even if you know the Apache web server inside and out, you still need an occasional on-the-job reminder -- especially if you're moving to the newer Apache 2.x. Apache 2 Pocket Reference gives you exactly what you need to get...

Clive Trotman / The Feathered Onion : Creation of Life in the Universe

Over the past 150 years the acknowledged dates for the formation of the Earth and the origin of Life have been pushed steadily back into the remote past. As these timescales have lengthened however, the interval between the two dates has reduced so...

Paul Strathern / Darwin and Evolution

THE BIG IDEA is a hugely popular series of science books that, at only 96 pages each, are an accessible read for the amateur.At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...When it was first published, Charles Darwin's theory of...

Gordon Rattray Taylor / The Great Evolution Mystery

Summarizes recent scientific advances in biology and genetics and, reviewing the theories of Darwin in light of these findings, explores such issues as the distribution of adaptations, rates of evolution, and the genetic...

Michael A. Cusumano / Microsoft Secrets

This is a "facts ma'am, nothing but the facts" examination of how Microsoft worked, both internally, and in the marketplace in the earlly 2000's. Unlike the raft of gossipy Bill-bios or sardonic and shrill pro- or anti-screeds, this book is focused...

Gordon Graham / The Internet

The A Philosophical Inquiry develops many of the themes Gordon Graham presented in his highly successful radio series, The Silicon Society . Exploring the tensions between the warnings of the Neo-Luddites and the bright optimism of the Technophiles,...

Armand Mattelart / The Information Society: An Introduction

The impact of the `information society′ are multiform and transdisciplinary. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affected or challenged by the new technologies of information and communication. In this...

Richard C. Lewontin / The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology

In this book R. C. Lewontin, one of the world's leading geneticists, provides a thought-provoking overview of both the successes and limitations of modern biology, making a powerful challenge to the increasingly orthodox claim that all of human existence...

Margaret Wertheim / The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace

In Pythagoras' Trousers, science writer and feminist Margaret Wertheim took an astute look at the social and cultural history of physics. She explored how the development of physics became intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized...

James A Coleman - Relativity for the Layman - PB - 1972

Published by Pelican UK in this revised edition, 1972, subtitled  ' a simplifiued account of the history, theory and proofs of relativity'  Initially published 1954.  In excellent condition. 

Francis Spufford / Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention

Show the world you have invented a machine that can slice potatoes and someone will ask if it can slice a pineapple (so said Charles Babbage). In thirteen unorthodox pieces, biographers, historians, poets, and critics explore aspects of the powerful...

Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon / Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet

Considering that the history of the Internet is perhaps better documented internally than any other technological construct, it is remarkable how shadowy its origins have been to most people, including die-hard Net-denizens! At last, Hafner and Lyon...

David Weinberger / Everything Is Miscellaneous - The Power of the New Digital Disorder

"Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about [the] second-generation Web."― Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the...

Martin Heidegger / The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume—intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader—call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of...

Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of...

Institute of Ideas / Science: Can We Trust the Experts?

Controversies surrounding a plethora of issues, from the MMR vaccine to mobile phones, from BSE to genetically-modified foods, have led many to ask how the public's faith in government advice can be restored. At the heart of the matter is the role of...

Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of...

Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the...

Deepak Chopra & Menas Kafatos / You Are The Universe

Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world. What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges everything we know...

Steven Johnson / Interface Culture - How New Technology Transforms the way we Create

Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, Steven Johnson not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the computer screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also...

Mike Cooley / Delinquent Genius : The Strange Affair of Man and His Technology

Delinquent Genius is simply brimming with insights. It traces the sources of technology and its application. It is, above all else, a brilliant account of a dangerous hubris which can lead to that which is instrumental becoming a source, a dangerous...

Steven Rose / The Making of Memory

The human brain weighs, on average, just over two pounds, is wrinkled like a walnut and has the colour and something of the consistency of porridge. Yet somehow the interactions of the ten billion cells that comprise it produce our capacity to think,...

Steven Rose / The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, mending and manipulating the mind

A compelling and authoritative study of the brain – its past, present and future.The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. How it works, the relationship between mind and brain, is one of the most important of...

Max Tegmark / Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

In Our Mathematical Universe , Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality Part-history of the cosmos,...

Bonnie A. Nardi , Vicki O'Day / Information Ecologies: Using Technology With Heart (Hardback)

The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. These two positions leave us with poor choices for action. They encourage us to accept as inevitable whatever technological changes come along...

Fred Turner / From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Hardback)

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of...

Kim J. Vicente / The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology (Hardback)

In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. He investigates every level of human activity - from simple matters such as our hand-eye coordination to...

Bonnie A. Nardi / Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (Hardback)

Intended for designers and researchers, Context and Consciousness brings together 13 contributions that apply activity theory to problems of human-computer interaction. Understanding how people actually use computers in their everyday lives is essential...

Eric von Hippel / Democratizing Innovation (Hardback)

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users—both individuals and firms—often freely...

George Sanderson / Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His Message (Hardback)

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Tom McMaster / Facilitating Technology Transfer through Partnership (Hardback)

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the world. We envisage that the book will, as a result of this,...

Walter R.J. Baets / Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: Innovation for the 21st Century Organization (Hardback)

This book discusses a holistic approach to organizations. It explores alternative organizational forms and work practices, the use and availability of information systems, evolving skill requirements, the innovative power of information technology, the...

Gene Moriarty / The Engineering Project: Its Nature, Ethics, and Promise (Hardback)

We all live our daily lives surrounded by the products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and more efficient. These are benefits we often just take for granted. But at the same time, as these products disburden us of unwanted tasks that...

Yoko Akama , Sarah Pink , Shanti Sumartojo / Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology (Hardback)

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.This book...

Harry Collins , Trevor Pinch / The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Hardback)

In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The What You Should Know About Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, a powerful creature which, while not...

Steve Fuller / Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Hardback)

In 1965 Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper met at the University of London to stage what has turned out to be the most momentous philosophical debate of the 20th century. At stake was no less than the soul of science itself...No discipline remained untouched by...